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The chemistry behind that pricey cup of civet coffee(arstechnica.com)
3 points by koolba 1y ago|0 comments
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by koolba 1y ago
> Why does the average applicant need to be penalized when their grandparents legally could not attend these institutions? I think it's pretty obvious why people have such reactions to DEI when it's literally just "legacie
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by koolba 1y ago
Is there any meaningful way to get breakdowns by department, location, or race?
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by koolba 1y ago
Why does an hard working non-legacy white boy deserve less of a shot than a non-legacy black one? Why should he be penalized because someone else’s father with a comparable skin tan was accepted 25 years ago?
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by koolba 1y ago
> It's quite entertaining to see how little security you actually get from most locks. Physical locks are for honest people. They signify that something is not meant to be accessed and at best slow down someone actively trying to ac
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by koolba 1y ago
Maybe donate some plasma afterward. There was a study about firefighters exposed to microplastics that had a statistical reduction after regular donations. Pretty much just diluting it out of your system.
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by koolba 1y ago
> There are _so many_ ways to cheat at poker that you should basically never play a private game outside of close friends. Playing in an actual regulated casino or poker hall eliminates most of the technical risk of a fraudulent shuffle.
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by koolba 1y ago
In 1776, the population of Virgin was about 500K, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts were about 270K, and Delaware and Georgia were about 50K each. The founders knew exactly what they were agreeing to when they gave each State two Senators. It’
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by koolba 1y ago
Must be some compile step. Reminds me of “use strict”.
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by koolba 1y ago
How about Hosted Better Max IO? Can be called HBO Max for short.
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by koolba 1y ago
> Zhao, in November 2023, pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court and agreed to step down as Binance CEO as part of a $4.3 billion settlement by the company with the Department of Justice. Did he already pay the $4.3 billion? That's
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Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao(cnbc.com)
17 points by koolba 1y ago|2 comments
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by koolba 1y ago
> You never know if an upstream image is purged randomly from docker, and your K8s node gets replaced, and now can't pull the base image for your service. That doesn’t make sense unless you have some oddball setup where k8s is build
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by koolba 1y ago
> I have a late 30s Frigidaire that I restored a few years ago Did I read that right with 30s, as in 1930s?
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by koolba 1y ago
No, I’m deeply confused why he would have massive medical bills when he’s covered by Medicare. Medicare covers 80% of bills and Medigap plans cover the other 20%. I think some recent changes obviate their need too by capping the annual out
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by koolba 1y ago
> True. The central problem described in the article is that he has cancer and doesn't want to go bankrupt from the medical bills. What bills? He’s 79 so he’d have been on Medicare for the past 14 years. Sure there’s the Medicare pr
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by koolba 1y ago
> Like I know it's tempting and attractive to imagine EVs like regular cars with some giant-ass AA batteries installed on them, but that's not how they work! Come on, we all know the big Christmas toys would always use those fa
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by koolba 1y ago
Okay I was thinking only of federal taxes (for which there’s no deduction). Thanks for the detail.
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PayPal's crypto partner mints $300T of stablecoins in 'technical error'(cnbc.com)
33 points by koolba 1y ago|21 comments
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by koolba 1y ago
Any idea what the actual deduction it supposedly found for private school? You can pay for K-12 with 529 or Coverdell ESA funds. But neither allows deductions for contributions. Only growth in either is tax free (assuming it’s spent on educ
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by koolba 1y ago
Wow. I can’t believe Glacier is on that list. Does not be accessible to new customers mean a new test account that rolls into the same parent org would no longer have access either?
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Gavin Newsom approves slavery reparations agency(politico.com)
7 points by koolba 1y ago|2 comments
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by koolba 1y ago
Why is there an env file parser at all?
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by koolba 1y ago
My favorite is pointers to functions passed as args for things like supplying a comparator. With more opaque void* args for customizing things even further.
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by koolba 1y ago
It’s kind of funny that the top two posts right now are: 1. Why Self-Host? 2. GitHub Issues
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Arson suspect made ChatGPT image of burning city before deadly Palisades Fire(cnn.com)
2 points by koolba 1y ago|0 comments
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by koolba 1y ago
Interestingly it also breaks into RedisHell too.
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by koolba 1y ago
I think it’s also for treating enlarged prostates.
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by koolba 1y ago
> Because a business will never put in 8x more time on an episodes subtitles than “bare minimum.” 3-4 hours of time for a sub must be a rounding error for the production costs of these shows. No?
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by koolba 1y ago
The words for this are hedging and speculation vs gambling.

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